New Delhi: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday (May 24, 2021) mentioned that the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine crisis is perpetuating the pandemic and referred to as it a ‘scandalous inequity’.
Ghebreyesus said {that a} small group of nations that make and purchase nearly all of the world’s vaccines management the destiny of the remainder of the world.
During the World Health Assembly, he mentioned, “The ongoing vaccine crisis is a scandalous inequity that is perpetuating the pandemic. More than 75% of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries.”
The WHO director-general mentioned that variety of coronavirus vaccine doses administered globally thus far would have been sufficient to cowl all well being staff and older folks, ‘if they’d been distributed equitably’.Â
“We could have been in a much better situation,” he expressed.
“Almost 18 months into the defining health crisis of our age, the world remains in a very dangerous situation. As of today, more cases have been reported so far this year than in the whole of 2020,” he added.
He requested the nations to implement nationwide vaccination methods, vaccinate these most in danger, and donate vaccines to COVAX.
Ghebreyesus mentioned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and it won’t be over ’till and except the transmission is managed in each final nation’.
Globally, as per WHO on May 24, there have been 16,68,60,081 confirmed circumstances of COVID-19, together with 34,59,996 deaths. As of May 24, a complete of 14,897,27,128 vaccine doses have been administered internationally.
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